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Slipper vs Sock - What's the difference?

slipper | sock |

As nouns the difference between slipper and sock

is that slipper is a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily while sock is a knitted or woven covering for the foot.

As verbs the difference between slipper and sock

is that slipper is to repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment while sock is to hit or strike violently.

As an adjective slipper

is slippery.

slipper

English

(wikipedia slipper)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
  • Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
    • Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.
  • A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
  • A person who slips.
  • * 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
    • He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
  • * 1995 , Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching ''Twelfth Night'' and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2, page 3:
    • Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper , hilarious to the spectator across the street.
  • * 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:
    • Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
  • A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
  • A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
  • (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
  • A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
  • * 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
    • "Mrs Marlene Foster , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "
  • The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
  • * 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research
    • "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."

    Synonyms

    * (low shoe) babouche, pantofle * (low shoe worn indoors) flip-flop, sandal, thong

    Derived terms

    * Japanese slipper * slipper animalcule * slipper chair * slipper flower * slipper limpet * slipperwort

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) slippery
    • O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, Australia, NZ) To repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
  • * 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
  • *:"One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "slipper")

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    sock

    English

    (wikipedia sock)

    Etymology 1

    * From (etyl) socke, sokke, sok, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A knitted or woven covering for the foot
  • A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors
  • A violent blow, punch
  • A shortened version of (Internet) sock puppet
    • "For enemies near are enemies known though socks are a bother he feels at last not alone " RationalWiki
  • (firearms, informal) a gun sock
    • Derived terms
    * bobby socks * knock somebody's socks off * sock hop * sock puppet
    References

    Etymology 2

    * Unknown, but compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch"). (en)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit or strike violently
  • To deliver a blow
    • They may let you off the first time, but the second time they'll sock it to you. — James Jones
    Derived terms
    * sock away * sock in * sockdolager

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) soc, (lena) soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ploughshare.
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